[LINK] Government gives thumbs down to PDF format

[Darrell Burkey]

On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 10:01, Tom Worthington wrote:

> No, the agency staff are thinking of their own convenience in using PDF 
> and of impressing their bosses, not the needs of the user. What would be 
> most convenient for the user would be the summary of the document as a 
> web page, followed by all the other content of the document as web 
> pages, followed by the option of downloading the entire document. 
> Literally the last thing the user wants is a whole report downloaded in PDF.

Not this user. I want to see the document in it's proper layout. There's
more to communicating in the printed medium then just the words Tom. I
can't stand HTML as the line spacing, kerning, line breaks, fonts etc
are all over the place. 

Give me pdf any day for a document. I think it's one of the most
brilliant advancements in online publishing ever! Death to HTML and all
it's evilness (although it's great for all the dribble on Wordpress web
sites). 

Long live PDF!


Cheers.

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Darrell Burkey
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College of Asia & the Pacific
Australian National University
Ph: (02) 6125 4160